The Merchant’s House Museum has been dubbed Manhattan’s Most haunted house. This NoHo icon is full of seasonal programming and events to make the most of the Halloween season. Their candlelight ghost tours are the most well-known, but they have a full slate of programming and exhibitions. They have a special half-mourning dress out of the Treadwell costume collection, and a new exhibit “Truly We Live in a Dying World” – the 19th Century Home in Mourning that goes deep into the practices around death, mourning, and grieving that the Treadwells inhabited. Click here for more info and to buy tickets.
October 2026 Ghost Tour dates include
Friday, October 16 & Saturday, October 17
Friday, October 23 & Saturday, October 24
Thursday, October 29 & Friday, October 30
Candlelight Ghost Tours
50-minute tours begin every half hour, 6:30 to 9 p.m.
Doors slam, floorboards creak, voices call into the dead of night. Venture into “Manhattan’s Most Haunted House” by flickering candlelight to hear chilling – and true – tales of decades of otherworldly activity in the house, the results of years of paranormal investigations – and the latest stunning scientific findings.
They are also offering SUPER SPOOKY Candlelight Ghost Tours with Paranormal Investigator Dan Sturges
90-minute tour begins 9:30 p.m.
In 2020, the museum closed due to COVID-19, leaving the house empty of staff and visitors. Dan Sturges, who has undertaken paranormal investigations at the Merchant’s House for 15 years, teamed up with neuroscientist Dr. Lee to conduct scientific research using specialized equipment custom-built for the house. Mounting fact-based evidence points to the very likely reality of paranormal activity at the Merchant’s House.
Join paranormal investigator Dan Sturges on a 90-minute In-Person SUPER SPOOKY Candlelight Ghost Tour for an in-depth look at the latest research and findings. Dan is the founder of Sturges Paranormal and appears on the Travel Channel’s weekly series, Paranormal Caught on Camera. He has performed investigations at the Merchant’s House – and documented his spine-chilling findings – since 2007.
Additionally, on Wednesday, October 28th, they will be cohosting Houdini Among the Villagers: The Magician’s Life and Afterlife in Greenwich Village
Co-Sponsored by Village Preservation and Boroughs of the Dead
On this panel Houdini’s rise to fame in New York, including the East Village, will be discussed, while learning wild facts about his life, his place in the history of stage magic alongside other luminaries and – in honor of the 100th anniversary of his death – Houdini’s meandering detour into the strange worlds of ghosts and Spiritualism, some of which is directly connected to historic sites right here in Greenwich Village.
Come with a love for the world’s best-known magician, leave with a deeper knowledge of his backstory and his afterlife among the spirits!
Free, Pre-registration required. At Church of the Village, 201 West 13th Street at the corner of 7th Avenue.
